Shiva Ayyadurai: the candidate who represents our bizarre political climate

October 18, 2018

Election Day is several weeks away, he’s barely registering in the polls, and US Senate hopeful Shiva Ayyadurai is on his way to talk to a group of high school government students.

And who better to address our youth? Ayyadurai, an independent who supports President Trump, is truly a candidate of our times. Few figures in the state can capture the bizarreness of the current political moment as he does, with all its outrage, decibels, and snaps of ugliness.